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any books you read or wish you had read in high school? look...
Talking erotic home sound barrier
  12/18/25
I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderso...
Vengeful House
  12/18/25
https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712? Reasonable price, ...
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fighting startled locus
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"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys...
shivering clear corn cake
  12/19/25
this is now forever in my search history I want you dead,...
shivering clear corn cake
  12/19/25
mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel
Floppy Lodge
  12/18/25
A few offhand: -On the Shortness of Life - Seneca -Sta...
rambunctious startling location coffee pot
  12/18/25
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&a...
shivering clear corn cake
  12/19/25
or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of...
khaki den gaming laptop
  12/19/25
The Illustrated Man Odyssey The International Jew 1984 M...
Onyx Soul-stirring Theater Stage Mental Disorder
  12/18/25
Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters
Scarlet duck-like university idea he suggested
  12/18/25
i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer readin...
Talking erotic home sound barrier
  12/18/25
Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Ce...
Scarlet duck-like university idea he suggested
  12/18/25
they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your...
Talking erotic home sound barrier
  12/18/25
180
Scarlet duck-like university idea he suggested
  12/18/25
The eyes and the impossible sourdough heart of samurai...
Internet-worthy market juggernaut
  12/18/25
rocket boys is 180
Henna Hell
  12/18/25
Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo
Internet-worthy market juggernaut
  12/18/25
...
Henna Hell
  12/19/25
weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party...
khaki den gaming laptop
  12/22/25
CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" thos...
Snowy Native
  12/18/25
he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that&rsq...
Talking erotic home sound barrier
  12/18/25
The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)
drunken center french chef
  12/18/25
ty for the recs, this is helpful i just asked him what bo...
Talking erotic home sound barrier
  12/18/25
Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has rea...
brilliant international law enforcement agency
  12/18/25
seconding count of monte cristo three musketeers is also ...
Alcoholic exciting rehab
  12/18/25
JackTales 🤡😳
Supple Pale Menage Athletic Conference
  12/18/25
those are for reading out loud , clown
Internet-worthy market juggernaut
  12/18/25
The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton https://www.amazon...
aromatic pit halford
  12/18/25
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) We Were Soldiers Once… And...
bespoke black woman
  12/18/25
are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by ...
Sepia address azn
  12/18/25
I’m not even sure which author you’re talking ab...
bespoke black woman
  12/18/25
lol
Sepia address azn
  12/18/25
he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers &qu...
Frum maniacal range mad-dog skullcap
  12/21/25
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000
Henna Hell
  12/18/25
No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a bet...
bespoke black woman
  12/18/25
James Bond novels Conan (only read the flemming and howard...
Copper offensive electric furnace
  12/18/25
The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.
rambunctious startling location coffee pot
  12/18/25
Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 ...
Copper offensive electric furnace
  12/18/25
Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new boo...
rambunctious startling location coffee pot
  12/18/25
1. Goldfinger 2. Moonraker 3. Casino Royale 4. From Russ...
Copper offensive electric furnace
  12/19/25
tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I th...
rambunctious startling location coffee pot
  12/21/25
cr
Henna Hell
  12/18/25
Anabasis
Wonderful theatre psychic
  12/18/25
...
Sepia address azn
  12/18/25
Flowers for Algernon
Rough-skinned mood
  12/18/25
The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant Man's Sear...
Sepia address azn
  12/18/25
a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it...
contagious self-absorbed meetinghouse
  12/18/25
Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in ...
dashing knife
  12/18/25
Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?) Zen and the Art of Motorc...
aphrodisiac community account
  12/18/25
> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance lol
Sepia address azn
  12/18/25
read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class i...
Talking erotic home sound barrier
  12/18/25
zorba the greek
Henna Hell
  12/18/25
...
bespoke black woman
  12/18/25
Several good recs already upthread. Some others: The Thin...
Snowy Native
  12/18/25
Cr. list I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit ov...
bespoke black woman
  12/18/25
The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorit...
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  12/18/25
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Snowy Native
  12/18/25
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  12/22/25
Watership Down A Day No Pigs Would Die 2nd Where the R...
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Starship Troopers Enders Game Johnny Tremain Childhoods E...
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  12/18/25
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
shivering clear corn cake
  12/19/25
Neon Bible better rec for younger kid
Wonderful theatre psychic
  12/19/25
abridged edgar allen poe short stories
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  12/19/25
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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:03 PM
Author: Talking erotic home sound barrier

any books you read or wish you had read in high school? looking for something that would be motivating / tools for life genre

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519424)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:15 PM
Author: Vengeful House

I would have enjoyed sword and sorcery fantasy. Poul Anderson (Broken Sword, Three Hearts and Three Lions) Fritz Lieber (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519444)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:19 PM
Author: Swashbuckling nudist clown

https://www.ebay.com/itm/276841789712?

Reasonable price, free shipping.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519452)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: fighting startled locus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519458)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:35 AM
Author: shivering clear corn cake

"There's a trip to the farmers market and time for toys and crayons, a bubble bath, and lots of love."

-- School Library Journal

"Will undoubtedly be scooped up by families seeking queer representation in board books."

-- Kirkus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521596)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:42 AM
Author: shivering clear corn cake

this is now forever in my search history

I want you dead, Malk Poo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521719)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:21 PM
Author: Floppy Lodge

mein kampf for late night reads that give you a good feel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519459)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: rambunctious startling location coffee pot

A few offhand:

-On the Shortness of Life - Seneca

-Starship Troopers (the book is much better and more serious than the movie)

-Bonfire of the Vanities

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519460)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:10 AM
Author: shivering clear corn cake

https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3922329&mc=32&forum_id=2#35633765

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521571)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:32 AM
Author: khaki den gaming laptop

or have the kid wake up xmas morning to an ACTUAL bonfire of his vanities

toughens him up a bit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49522050)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Onyx Soul-stirring Theater Stage Mental Disorder

The Illustrated Man

Odyssey

The International Jew

1984

Meditations

The Myth of Sisyphus

Hamlet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519465)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:27 PM
Author: Scarlet duck-like university idea he suggested

Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain for starters

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519476)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: Talking erotic home sound barrier

i think my side of the mountain was one of his summer reading assignments



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519493)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: Scarlet duck-like university idea he suggested

Where the Red Fern Grows, All Quiet on the Western Front, Celestine Prophecy, Lord of the Flies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519513)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:37 PM
Author: Talking erotic home sound barrier

they did lord of the flies already. ill look up some of your other recs, ty!

he just finished peak, so hatchet is a good one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519523)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:45 PM
Author: Scarlet duck-like university idea he suggested

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519559)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM
Author: Internet-worthy market juggernaut

The eyes and the impossible

sourdough

heart of samurai

artemis

rocket boys

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519953)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:13 PM
Author: Henna Hell

rocket boys is 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520282)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Internet-worthy market juggernaut

Every kid should read. It’s top of that list imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521280)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:34 AM
Author: Henna Hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521595)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: khaki den gaming laptop

weird group called the "rocket boys" ran the party scene at my rural West Virginia high school

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49530601)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:54 PM
Author: Snowy Native

CR GOAT status books, but would one be "past" those by HS, especially later in HS?

My 7 year old just read--and really enjoyed--Hatchet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519755)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: Talking erotic home sound barrier

he’s 12/7th grade so i said high school since that’s more his reading level

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519767)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:28 PM
Author: drunken center french chef

The Swimming-Pool Library (fulano)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519483)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: Talking erotic home sound barrier

ty for the recs, this is helpful

i just asked him what book he’s reading (we’re on a flight) and its war and peace

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519489)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:24 PM
Author: brilliant international law enforcement agency

Waste of time unless he's secretly 30+ years old and has read tons of other Russian lit and has a solid grounding in religion and philosophy.

Count of Monte Cristo is a goat novel that is also accessible and really exciting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519679)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:29 PM
Author: Alcoholic exciting rehab

seconding count of monte cristo

three musketeers is also great and vastly superior to any adaptation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519686)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:29 PM
Author: Supple Pale Menage Athletic Conference

JackTales 🤡😳

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519490)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:02 PM
Author: Internet-worthy market juggernaut

those are for reading out loud , clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519956)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: aromatic pit halford

The Boy with Pink Hair by Perez Hilton

https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Pink-Hair-Perez-Hilton/dp/0451234200

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519492)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:32 PM
Author: bespoke black woman

Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz)

We Were Soldiers Once… And Young (Moore & Galloway)

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (Lansing)

The Way of Men (Donovan)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519502)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: Sepia address azn

are you seriously recommending a book on manhood written by a homo?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519701)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: bespoke black woman

I’m not even sure which author you’re talking about, though I’m 99.99% sure that it’s not Moore or Galloway

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519724)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:41 PM
Author: Sepia address azn

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519873)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:48 PM
Author: Frum maniacal range mad-dog skullcap

he doesn't like the term gay or homo and instead prefers "androphile," a term he uses to describe romance and sex between masculine men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Donovan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49528627)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: Henna Hell

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 18000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519898)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:28 PM
Author: bespoke black woman

No young man of any worth can finish that and not have a better idea of what it means to be a man and to experience the thrill, the triumph, of surviving impossible odds. Leadership, loyalty, discipline. And then they get home and are like, fuck it, sign me up for WWI’s trenches

My middle son needed a bit of coaching on perseverance, so we read this together and then did a HARD AS FUCK mountain bike camping trip in western NC.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520739)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:33 PM
Author: Copper offensive electric furnace

James Bond novels

Conan (only read the flemming and howard originals though)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519505)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:39 PM
Author: rambunctious startling location coffee pot

The first Bond novel is so good. Amazing call.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519535)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:51 PM
Author: Copper offensive electric furnace

Once I got into the first one I burned through the rest (12 or so) in a summer. all were 180. I tried reading the non-flemming but its not the same. They don't write novels like that anymore.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519587)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:50 PM
Author: rambunctious startling location coffee pot

Any chance you can recommend your top 5? I need some new books to read.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519744)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:06 AM
Author: Copper offensive electric furnace

1. Goldfinger

2. Moonraker

3. Casino Royale

4. From Russia With Love

5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

the order changes based on mood but these five are in a tier above.

the rest are all solid. for example, Diamonds are Forever is my least favorite and that is still leagues better than any modern espionage novel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49522101)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:44 PM
Author: rambunctious startling location coffee pot

tyft. I loved Moonraker. Will check out Goldfinger next I think.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49528612)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:46 PM
Author: Henna Hell

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519729)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:42 PM
Author: Wonderful theatre psychic

Anabasis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519542)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: Sepia address azn



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519572)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: Rough-skinned mood

Flowers for Algernon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519548)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:48 PM
Author: Sepia address azn

The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519568)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: contagious self-absorbed meetinghouse

a song of ice and fire. I'm not a fantasy guy and I loved it. great series for boys who like knights, politics, and violence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519602)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:30 PM
Author: dashing knife

Patrick O'Byrne's Master and Commander and related books in the series

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519689)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: aphrodisiac community account

Hardy Boys (how old is your kid?)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Dune

anything recent by Lawrence Millman

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519705)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:37 PM
Author: Sepia address azn

> Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519706)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:01 PM
Author: Talking erotic home sound barrier

read that, among others, for my contemporary thought class in hs. book was so so but class was 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519770)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:38 PM
Author: Henna Hell

zorba the greek



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519710)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: bespoke black woman



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519736)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: Snowy Native

Several good recs already upthread. Some others:

The Things They Carried

Mark Twain--starting with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

1984

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (and throw in The Hobbit)

Infinite Jest

Moby Dick

Blood Meridian

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49519751)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:30 PM
Author: bespoke black woman

Cr. list

I feel like The Things They Carried got a bit overexposed to the hopelessly feminized librarian space for a time and was looked down upon as kind of trite. But it’s 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520745)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: bright frisky marketing idea boltzmann

The Things They Carried is the most classic writer's favorite. You shouldn't look down on librarian recs. This is all they do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520815)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 10:12 PM
Author: Snowy Native



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521254)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: Frum maniacal range mad-dog skullcap

agree with the first sentence and rec. need to exercise caution with the second and third sentences just given that the values may not be stoic masculine warrior

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49530736)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: flesh fragrant corner volcanic crater

Watership Down

A Day No Pigs Would Die

2nd Where the Red Fern Grows

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520246)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:33 PM
Author: Concupiscible cobalt forum



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520756)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:40 PM
Author: salmon 180 ratface legal warrant

Starship Troopers

Enders Game

Johnny Tremain

Childhoods End

Rama



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49520778)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:16 AM
Author: shivering clear corn cake

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521578)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:11 AM
Author: Wonderful theatre psychic

Neon Bible better rec for younger kid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521698)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:23 AM
Author: Razzmatazz Library

abridged edgar allen poe short stories

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811707&forum_id=2#49521706)



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Date: December 26th, 2025 12:37 AM
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